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Is Christianity Sacrificial or Antisacrificial

✍ Scribed by Robert J. Daly

Book ID
102620147
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
110 KB
Volume
27
Category
Article
ISSN
0048-721X

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

To take up this question in a way that might lead to fruitful discussion, we must begin with some careful definitions and distinctions. The fundamental distinction to be made is between what is ordinarily referred to as the ideal or normative idea of sacrifice, and the phenomenological or descriptive idea of sacrifice. 1 Of similar importance will be a self-critical awareness of what voice is speaking, and from what knowledge and experience that voice is speaking, and a sensitive awareness of how that voice may differ from other voices.

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